Niantic is making a brand new actual world Monster Hunter sport. Today, Capcom and Niantic Studios introduced Monster Hunter Now, a brand new cell sport that mixes Niantic’s AR gameplay with Monster Hunter’s distinctive model of battling monsters. Unlike Pokemon Go and different Niantic video games that promotes gathering and PvP-style gameplay by visiting actual world areas, Monster Hunter is billed as an “Action RPG” sport, through which gamers attempt to collectively battle and hunt monsters in actual time. Notably, the sport’s hunts will solely final 75 seconds and gamers will have the ability to be matched with different gamers after they’re enjoying. The sport is being billed as extra informal than the standard Monster Hunter sport, however nonetheless options many components of a basic Monster Hunter sport.
Hallmarks of the Monster Hunter franchise, together with iconic monsters resembling Rathalos, assist from Palico characters, and the power to craft and improve tools and weapons, will probably be in Monster Hunter Now. While gamers can battle monsters in actual time and in the true world, they will even have the ability to “paint” monsters in an effort to convey the monsters to different areas to allow them to battle with buddies at college or work as a substitute. Player also can gather sources at numerous Waypoints (actual world areas tagged by gamers of different Niantic video games) to improve their armor and weapons. The sport will even have story components, together with a mixture of new and current characters from the Monster Hunter franchise.
Niantic and Capcom have been creating Monster Hunter Now for 4 years, with Niantic’s Tokyo Studio main the event of the sport. Like different Niantic video games, Monster Hunter Now will probably be a free-to-play sport, though there will probably be some monetization components.
Monster Hunter Now joins a rising variety of Niantic tasks that features Pokemon Go, NBA All-World, and Pikmin Bloom. While Niantic’s different video games have not reached the identical heights as Pokemon Go, Monster Hunter Now ought to have a neater time choosing up followers, partially as a result of Monster Hunter stays considered one of Capcom’s greatest franchises.
The beta check for Monster Hunter Now will begin April twenty fifth, with registration launching as we speak. The full Monster Hunter Now sport will launch in September 2023.
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